Project Gutenberg 2024-11-27 Public domain in the USA. 232 Head, Francis Bond, Sir 1793 1875 Head, F. B. (Francis Bond), Sir Head, Francis Bond, Sir, bart. 04027112 Stokers and pokers : $b or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the railway clearing-house $aUnited Kingdom :$bJohn Murray, $c1849. Carol Brown, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Stokers and Pokers: or, The London and North-Western Railway" by the author of "Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau" is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. The book provides an in-depth look into the construction, maintenance, and operational intricacies of the London and North-Western Railway, reflecting on the impact of railways on society and commerce during that period. It aims to illuminate the challenges faced by engineers and workers in an age when rail transport was becoming a vital part of British life. The opening of the work begins by drawing a vivid comparison between the astonishment with which people once viewed trains and the modern-day indifference towards them. The author sets the stage by introducing the reader to an anecdote about an extraordinary horse ride, transitioning into the amazement surrounding the advances of railway technology and its implications for everyday life. With an intention to inform the public, the writer conveys the complexity of railway construction and the various elements involved, from surveying to the roles of different workers, emphasizing not only the physical but also the societal hurdles that railway engineers had to overcome. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/stokerspokersorl00headrich 20210727050357head 1849 GB Reading ease score: 41.6 (College-level). Difficult to read. en London and North-Western Railway Telegraph -- Great Britain Railway Clearing House (London, England) HE Text Category: History - British Category: Engineering & Technology 493024 2025-07-29T13:49:28.654810 text/html 466923 2024-11-27T16:17:20 text/html 1188780 2025-07-29T13:49:37.226761 application/epub+zip 1188693 2025-07-29T13:49:30.223797 application/epub+zip 288423 2025-07-29T13:49:29.464826 application/epub+zip 1258782 2025-07-29T13:49:42.278743 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1215328 2025-07-29T13:49:36.578831 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 434823 2025-07-29T13:49:27.432844 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 414838 2024-11-27T16:17:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16535 2025-07-29T13:49:42.436734 application/rdf+xml 7110 2025-07-29T13:49:29.650799 image/jpeg 1528 2025-07-29T13:49:29.557791 image/jpeg 1135671 2025-07-29T13:49:28.716842 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia